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CNA Staff, Feb 8, 2021 / 07:01 pm (CNA).- Pro-life organizations have reacted to the arrest and apparent confession of a former employee on child pornography allegations, emphasizing the need to ensure that children are protected.
Ruben Verastigui, 27, allegedly distributed, received, and possessed child pornography between April 2020 and February 2021. He was arrested in Washington, D.C. Feb. 5 and admitted to receiving some child pornography files, a criminal complaint in the U.S. District Court of Washington says.
He is a former employee of the pro-life group Students for Life, though the charges do not include activity in this time.
“Ruben Verastigui worked for Students for Life from Sept. 5, 2014 to Dec. 2, 2016, following some engagement when he was a student himself. He worked in an office doing graphic design and had no oversight or management of students,” Kristi Hamrick, spokesperson for Students for Life of America and Students for Life Action, sa
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Former Senate GOP staffer arrested on child pornography charges
Derek Hawkins and Meryl Kornfield, The Washington Post
Feb. 6, 2021
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A former Republican Senate staffer was arrested in Washington on Friday on federal child pornography charges in what investigators said was a crackdown on an online group that traded numerous illicit files and videos in recent months.
Ruben Verastigui is accused of receiving and possessing child pornography between last April and this month, according to a criminal complaint in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.
The 27-year-old was arrested Friday evening at his apartment in the District, where police executed a search warrant. Investigators said they found several files of child pornography on his cellphone, along with a chat conversation in which he allegedly discussed exchanging the files and videos. During an interview with investigators, Verastigui admitted to receiving some of the files, according to